Indictment or challenge?(Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid)(Book review)

PALESTINE: PEACE NOT APARTHEID BY JIMMY CARTER Simon & Schuster, 264 pages, $27.00

BEFORE IT WAS EVEN RELEASED on November 14, Jimmy Carter's new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, caused an uproar. The implied analogy in the title between contemporary Israel and the old South Africa drew a chorus of denunciations from Jewish groups and inspired rumors that publication was delayed until after the midterm elections, lest the book alienate Jewish Democrats and send them voting for Republicans in droves.

Israel's supporters despise comparisons to South Africa, but ...

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